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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Ieva Puzo
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Social Anthropology; Political Science; Sociology
Language:Latvian
Study course descriptionFull description, Full time
Branch of science:Sociology; Social Anthropology

Objective

To give students an insight into the most recent (over last few years) and internationally relevant debates in socio-cultural anthropology.

Prerequisites

Not required.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Students are familiar with the most recent and internationally relevant debates in social and cultural anthropology; they are able to describe and compare the positions of different researchers on specific issues. They are able to identify the main theses of the field on the issues addressed and critically evaluate their arguments.

Skills

Can explain the implications of one or another position for the field, for participants in anthropological research and for the wider community.

Competence

Being able to interpret, through the prism of the debates under consideration, the processes observed in contemporary societies and contemporary trends in the discipline, as well as specific questions which wait for anthropologists' answers.

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